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China rejects US charges that it has committed genocide against Uighur and other Muslims in the remote western region, where activists say more than 1 million are held in internment camps
The United States on Friday condemned China s abuse of ethnic and religious minorities, including what it called crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang against Muslim Uighurs and severe restrictions in Tibet. We condemn China s abuse of members of ethnic and religious minority groups including crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang and severe restrictions in Tibet, Mark Cassayre, US charge d affaires, told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
The U.S. charge d’affaires said America condemns ‘China’s abuse of members of ethnic and religious minority groups including crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang and severe restrictions in Tibet’
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Dozens of countries including Canada called on Russia on Friday to release Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny saying his imprisonment was unlawful and demanding an investigation into his poisoning last year.
In a statement read out by Poland to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, they said that actions by Russian authorities against the opposition leader were “unacceptable and politically motivated”. The 45 countries were mainly European but also included the United States, Australia and Japan.
Alexei Navalny has been moved from jail to an unknown location, his lawyers have claimed.
The opposition leader, 44, was last reported to be in penal colony number 2 - known as IK-2 - east of Moscow, where torture-like conditions are so horrific inmates have severely injured themselves to avoid being sent there.
But a post shared to Mr Navalny s Twitter account on Friday said his lawyers don t know where the Kremlin critic is now after he was transported today.
They were banned from visiting him at a pre-trial detention centre in the morning, the tweet said.
At around 2pm, they were told that Mr Navalny had been moved, but authorities refused to divulge where to.